How will my well get more water?

Question

My landlord warned us that our well was so small it probably cant even fill one of those large swimming pools and today I was doing laundry and I washed my minivan than washed half my husbands small truck and it appeared that the well had run out of water. I was on my third loud of laundry and the hose lost water pressure and started spurting between a drizzle and water with no pressure. I walked to the pump house and the pump was making a grumbling sound alot louder than when it normally pumps. When I went in the house the washmachine was also sputering water. The water was not used for about an hour and when The toilet was flushed it also sputered. So is our well out of water and if it is how will it fill back up
? Do I have to wait for it to rain cuz its been pretty dry here? Thankyou so much for your help
Mary

Answer 1

water will fill the well from the ground water, if the level is low it will take a while, in Arizona there were people in the area who had to truck in water and fill the wells on their property, other option would be to drill yours deeper especially if the water table/level is low where you are. if there is no water in the area where your well is, and that is a possibility, you're just out of luck and you should have listened to your landlord. Obviously there is some water, just very little, you'll likely have to learn to conserve

Answer 2

This business of the landlord "has to re drill the well" is bull, he did tell you the well was shallow and the water was in short supply so, what did you do, test the well? I'd say so.

You washed the clothes, washed the truck and the car, probably never turned off the water, you were told.

The wells probably in a shallow aquifer and in short supply of water. You were told to take care when using the water. I would warn you one more time, being a land lord, you wanted to rent there knowing the water was like this, now learn to live with it. There are car washes and laundromats.

I lived on the Minnesota /Canadian border in the deep woods, we raised five kids on a hand dug well. Our water was frozen most of the winter, it hit fifty below in the winter, we hauled our water. We lived with it and made it just fine. We used the washing machine, we didn't wash the cars.

Answer 3

A deeper well doesn't mean you will always get to use more water. You have to respect your well and not use more water than the well can recover. Don't be irresponsible with your water usage. Even if you are only renting you still need to be a good steward of the land. Many places set up graywater systems to irrigate the landscape. You can use laundry rinse water to flush toilets. But, if you continually run the aquifer dry , it may never recover, because a large air pocket in the aquifer can affect the hydrostatic pressure that allows well recovery.

Answer 4

If you are renting, I would say this is the landlords responsibility! You may get him to dig a deeper well! You may also try not using so much water in one day! I certainly would not have tried to wash two vehicles (no matter the size), and wash clothes in such a short amount of time, after being told water well was small! And knowing that it hasn't rained in a while. Especially if you wanted to use toilet that same day! Other than rain or digging deeper well, you'll just have to wait for well to fill again!

Answer 5

The landlord needs to redrill (or deepen) the existing well or drill in another location. It is not that the well is 'small' it is that it does not have access to proper water supplies. And that is the LANDLORD's responsibility. I would just move if I were you (and you could break your lease legally under those circumstances)

Answer 6

Wells are normally supplied by underground aquafers (flowing passages). The aquafers can run low on water. This may require a deeper well to be drilled.